The Downward Spiral

Turns out I dont care Nine Inch Nails. One well known song. I don't feel the need to listen to this album again.

Industralistische/elektronische metal wat mij te edgy is en niet aanspreekt

Не для меня жанр, но не так плохо.

UFF ya vi que es un disco doble y me da un poco de paja. No esta mal, sonido mega industrial. Me cuesta un poco igual dejar los temas completos ya que se tornan bastante repetitivos en algun punto. Un puntito mas porque tiene el tema de la peli Natural Born Killers. Pero sinceramente no pude escuchar ni un tema entero. Not for me

i like trent and atticus but. no

Not for me...noisy

Too depressing

LOUD NOISES - Cash did Hurt better

Meh. Didn't like 'em in the 90s. Have not changed my mind

I used to love NIN as a teenager. I think it is good in place and time, but at this time in my life, I'm not a huge fan, but can appreciate the influence this album has had on the history of music in general.

I'm sad I judged this album by it's name and cover. It had some decent tracks. Still not my thing, but not the worst thing I've listened to by a long shot.

Was ok. Closer and Hurt are absolute classics, but I'd probably skip the other tracks if I heard them come on.

I enjoyed more of this than I expected. There are some rather well put together industrial rock songs that are high energy and have a good melody. I don't really like the dramatic shifts in quiet moments to brutally loud moments though. Favorite song: Mr. Self Destruct

Forrest Gump

nicht meine Musik

Too hard for me but I like two of the songs.

Yeah different but no depth to this

idk- the mixing of this album drives me nuts. Can't really hear anything without pumping the volume. unless... that's the point? feels like I need to explore this one again later

A bit difficult to use as background music during a workday

Pretty unpleasant but I did hear some interesting/cool stuff. Did not finish :/

Kinda painful to listen to, but not downright awful?

5

The classic noisiy and dirty sound that NiN. Contains the original "Hurt", which later world famous because of the cover that Johnny Cash made

I absolutely love Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' scores for the social network, mid90s and soul. I put it on as background music when I read. This album, not so much.

Gotta be honest, didn’t really dig this one. There were some good moments, but really not my style. Favorite tracks: “Piggy” and “Hurt”

Meh. It's an iconic sound, of this era. Don't find it very appealing overall.

französische the rasmus - 2

Disappointed

Hard to listen to at times. Not really my cup of tea.

I'm so sorry Andrew. I listen to this album and think "Oh I should be liking this" but for some reason I don't. It makes me feel empty inside because I don't think I felt anything listening to this. The ideas are good, and if someone were to describe this music, I would probably be interested in listening to it. But for some reason I can't get into it at all. Overall, I'd give this album 3.5 inches / 9

I liked 2 songs on this album, the rest was pretty much noise to me.

Meh

I’m not gonna lie I started and wasn’t feeling it rip

perhaps more industrial than I had bargained on. few bangers, but not really my cuppa - C

Do you enjoy the sound of someone scratching their fingernails on a holographic placemat? What about someone screaming loudly into a cheap toy megaphone? If so this album is for you. Unfortunately it's not for me,this album gave me a headache. Fav songs are Hurt and Heresy Perfect music to annoy anyone around

Have always liked Hurt but Johnny Cash's cover is legendary. Otherwise not too big a fan.

I would never intentionally listen to this again.

Innovative to be sure, but a lot of the songs i just dont like, Closer and Hurt are great (Johnny Cash's version is better)

Not a fan. Industrial music has never been my forte

Not my cup of joe

troche za potezne dla mnie pozdro

Some cool moments in there. Like the sounds of some of the songs. The pigs one is the best so far. Difficult to keep listening to though. Didn't finish lol

Basically a good album but sometimes it's too much noise for me.

Edgelord electro-rammstein

Didn’t listen this go ‘round, but I remember looking some of it

Känner att det passar mer som atmosfärisk soundtrack till en film än något man sätter på för att lyssna på några bra låtar. Men blev inspirerad att lyssna på lite system of a down iaf!

Not my cup of tea

Did not finish. Only giving 2 stars for interesting industrial-electronic sounds.

Listened before

Could possibly grow on me.

Сара 1 Марко 1

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (1994) Boy oh boy, this is a TOUGH listen. The first three songs sound like heavy metal meets construction zone. The messaging is really pessimistic. To date, this might be one of the WORST albums I have ever had to listen to. I don't dig the techno meets hell sounds. For example, the incorporation of women screaming in "The Becoming" is extremely disturbing. The last four songs weren't as bad as I thought, and glad I got to hear the original version of Hurt, that Johnny Cash would later famously cover. However, I stand by my comment that this is one of the WORST albums, for me personally. I guess I'm not into Industrial Rock. The only song I truly liked was A Warm Place, and that was an instrumental! Album Rank: 1 Favorite Song: A Warm Place

Did not enjoy.

Actual hell to listen through. Except for A Warm Place. But everything else had my ears bleeding.

Unbearable, sorry.

Terrible

Not my vibe. Don't like whispering. Don't like screaming.

This Industrial Rock album feels like being locked inside a factory where the machinery is malfunctioning and someone keeps deliberately making it louder. Distorted guitars, pounding drums, electronic loops, samples and layers of noise grind against each other, while Trent Reznor shifts between whispers, strained singing and screams. The sound keeps piling pressure onto me until there is hardly any space left to escape into. Sometimes the sheer density becomes compelling, but just as often I feel overwhelmed by the barrage, as if the machinery is dragging me further into the building whether I want to go or not. The increasingly oppressive sound fits the album's downward movement almost literally.

genuinely awful sound

Trash

Шума много, музыки мало.

I was expecting to like this one, but I really didn't. We get it, you're angry and angsty.

pedo

This is not how I wanted my return to this project after a two month break to sound like.

Can you make a negative star review?

Not my music taste at all so didn't get it, just seems like music for people in a dark place First album I've had to skip, and that was after 3 tunes, shite

This album angsty as hell bro. Made me anxious just sitting at my desk at work. Hurt was aight, J Cash did it better tho. 1.5/5

first immediate skip. not for me (how can a song make you feel queasy)

Heard it before and I've never been a fan of NIN. This is not even good industrial music, it's just noise and Trent either screaming his ass off in an unpleasant way or mumbling something to a softer instrumental. And the synth in Ruiner sounds just like Hot on the Heels of Love by Throbbing Gristle? I could never get why people love NIN so much. American industrial music is never good, this type of music has to come from a place like Germany to sound authentic. And fuck Trent for recording this album at Cielo Drive and being weird about it. Getting this album a day before the anniversary of the murders is a joke 1/5

Horrible, anxiety-inducing noise. It's like sandpaper in my ears. Why so angry?

Very bad

Hated it

Жуть какая-то, с большим трудом можно назвать это музыкой, лишь благодаря паре-тройке песен.

I had heard so much praise about this album for years, so I went in with high expectations. Man, what a disappointment. To me, this is pure shit — genuinely unlistenable. While listening I felt mostly annoyed and bored. The sound is noisy, repetitive, and miserable in the most unpleasant way. The production tries to be dark and intense but just ends up being exhausting and empty. Even the famous song “Hurt” couldn’t save it for me. The only good thing about that track are the lyrics, and even then, thank God Johnny Cash came along and made the real masterpiece version. Trent Reznor’s original feels weak in comparison. His songwriting skills feel very overrated to me. This album is the kind of thing I might have liked when I was 10 years old and thought being “dark” was automatically cool. Now, in more conscious years, I regret every second I spent listening to this garbage. If you want the real emotional power of “Hurt,” just go straight to Johnny Cash’s version and skip this entirely.

this is not for me

Wow! What a happy chap…not for me musically. Too aggressive and negative.

Not for me, too chaotic and, for me, elements of non musical noise.

nope

not my thing

Not for me, glad others can appreciate it.

Tää oli hirveetä paskaa jo nuorempana ja ei oo parantunu siitä yhtään, ehkä jopa päinvastoin. Ei pystyny ees kuuntelee biisejä kokonaan.

No olihan ihan sietämätöntä paskaa. Mä en löytänyt tästä mitään tarttumapintaa.

I like some of Trent Reznor's other projects, but this is just bullshit. You hate everyone and everything including yourself? This album is for you.

It's Fucking noise

wow this was just not up my alley at all. The only saving grace I can think of for this album was that it wasn’t any longer than hour

Not for me. There were moments, but overall, not my jam

Meh

Je me suis infligé cette écoute mais au secours !! Je crois que mes oreilles ont saigné et je n'ai en rien saisi la beauté de cet album

Dross

Nunca entendí que le ven a esta banda de re mierda, inescuchable, prefiero empalarme antes que volver a escuchar esta garchita

1 trop hard rock que j'aime pas

Just could not make myself like this. Too screamy.

all the songs sound the same

not my style

I’ve heard a lot about NIИ, but I’ve never actually listened to them, let alone their albums. Honestly, it’s just trash. It’s unlistenable, it’s literally torture for the ears that gives you a headache. It’s as if Depeche Mode started doing butyrate. Once again, I’m convinced that when a band claims to have a multi-instrumentalist, the music is always awful.

Main objects of my nightmares: - The pigs winning tonight - Getting penetrated by a nine-inch……nail

As a non-native, it's really hard for me to keep track of the lyrics. Also the vocal is unnecessarily shouting? Like, it is nice experimental stuff for 1994 but why it is in this 1001 website is way beyond me.

Urgh

Too angry

This album is for a certain public, sadly it was not for me.

No. Imposible. Definitivamente no es para mí, le diría a Netflix. Yo sé que tienen cosas que en perspectiva están buenas, pero lo sufrí.

Yeah I don’t think I’m gonna make it thru this one. Chalk it up. Just not me.

Not my sort of thing

I had not heard this previously and happy to say it exceeded my expectations by proving to be not quite the very worst among the unlistenable albums we have been subjected to so far - one star. Tom.

2 - TERRIBLE

This was a bit moody for my taste. Does someone need a hug?

Not For Me 1 Just Noise

Muy malo no entiendo como pueden poner esto entre los álbumes que hay que escuchar antes de morir. 1/10

1.5

noise. just noise. creo que conocía closer. Pero no pude terminar el album.

Aggressively not my cup of tea.

Horrible awful lyrics. I feel sorry for people who relate to this.

queeeee, solo conozco un tema y todo el álbum habla de lo mismo (sexo) pero se fueron al joraca con el hard metal que onda

Couldnt even finish the first song

Don’t know how people liked this, this was honestly one of the worst things I’ve heard on this list.

As a high school senior, I remember seeing an underclassmen girl with the lyrics to Closer written on her backpack in pink puffy paint. It was official -- alternative music was now the mainstream. This was my first time listening to this album. I almost didn't make it through the first song. But I persevered. After all, this is a critically acclaimed album beloved by millions... right? After finishing, I openly admit I don't get it. Is there something there mixed in with all the white noise and screaming that I just don't understand? I'm certainly open to that possibility. I could hear some interesting things in some of the chords used in some places -- Trent Reznor clearly understands the nuts and bolts of music. But I just couldn't find anything on here that sticks with me -- A Warm Place... yeah that was kinda cool... how does it go again? I understand that this is supposed to be a concept album of an individual's downward spiral toward suicide. But I just found the lyrics dark and REALLY repetitive. If this album did anything to help change attitudes toward depression and mental health, then I applaud it. But musically I just couldn't find anything here. I'm going to go listen to some Radiohead.

Muy pesado, escuche 2/3 temas y no pude entrar. No es mi onda

Jeg er med på at det er konceptalbum med et kunstnerisk budskab, men der var simpelthen ikke et eneste øjeblik, hvor jeg bare tilnærmelsesvis nød noget som helst af det. Ikke et eneste sekund. Jeg har nok faktisk haft præcis den oplevelse, som var intentionen, så måske den burde have fået en 5'er.

Ulideligt at høre på det her i mere end 10 minutter

:) qué es eso al final de la primera canción. la verdad ni le presté atención

once i was driving some friends around and playing Nina Simone (Feeling Good) in my car. We got out and my friend said "i listen to artists who can actually sing." i replied, "ethan, you listen to fucking nine inch nails." this is the fastest i have ever invoked The Rule. one track in and i want to vomit; no way am i listening to 1hr5 of this shit.

lwk ass

Ass

⭐ Det är mörkt, deppigt och skevt. Har aldrig lyssnat aktivt på NIN, bara hört någon låt och hade på känn ungefär vad det handlade om. Var tveksam till om det skulle skulle vara något för mig och det visade sig att det är det inte heller. Det finns säkert kvaliteér här men det är för skevt och krävande för mig både musikaliskt och textmässigt, det bästa med NIN är loggan. Bäst A warm place (för att den ger lite lugn i allt ljud) och Hurt men vet inte ens om jag gillar denna versionen, gillar dock covern av Johnny Cash mycket. Det finns låtskrivarkvaliteér hos Trent Reznor men han gömmer det väl under produktionen.

Well I hate metal, just noise to my ears..

When you can't hear how lame the lyrics are and the noise takes over, it's better, but not by much. 'I wanna fuk you like an animal' yawn...'I drink the honey in your hive', hilarious, enough to bring you out in hives. 'Music' for 14 year olds with acne and a bit of gristle around the mush, thinking that raging hormones have real meaning to their existence. You grow out of it, well some do anyway.

Never have liked thrash and this has not converted me!

Un album troppo distante dai miei gusti musicali, qualche canzone mi ha gasato mentre pedalavo ma per il resto non riuscirei ad ascoltarlo.

muy ruidoso

- The Downward Spiral - Piggy - Hurt

Not for me

Not as nother growly, shouty thing. Not for me

no es mi estilo :/

Ugh. Completely unlistenable. Skip skip skip. I mean really. Couldn’t even last through the cover of Hurt. I was never NIN’s target audience I guess. Off to cleanse my soul with some Lizzo.

not my vibe

3/10 So loud, not my thing

Another DNF. I don’t understand the hype around NIN, it sounds all over the place and the vocals are too quiet in comparison to instruments.

17/03/25 o que quer que essa merda seja, eu não gosto pra mim é um dos álbuns mais superestimados da existência essa primeira música parece um poop com esse instrumental alto e a voz inaudível o final igualmente grande bosta isso ser a vibe deles nossa como eles são diferentões e fazem críticas sociais de forma mega inteligente nossa como eles se fato não se importam com nada, como são inteligentes piggy começou bem, chato mas um pouco menos foi um pouco menos chata do que eu esperava o vocal também é uma bosta, a galera tava era carente por uma vozinha baixa no ouvido o que aconteceu com a voz dele em heresy? conseguiriam piorar o que já era ruim agora ele decidiu berrar também, e o niilismo mega inteligente voltou march of the pigs acertaram no instrumental, parecia de videogame, daí o mano abriu a boca e voltou a bosta de sempre ainda bem que essa n tem letra, porque não dá pra ouvir o que ele canta mesmo, o nillismo e crítica social diferentão fica meio escondido closer é inesperadamente bem feito??? no instrumental obviamente, pq a letra é adolescente (niilista, claro) com tesão agressivo se alongou muito esse instrumental no meio já, quando eu finalmente acho algo decente aqui dentro ele se piora ruiner começa igual closer, instrumental decente e vão cagando com voz e etc um solo de guitarra distorcido bem broxa esses synths parecem intro de reportagem do fantástico kkkkkk the becoming é a pior de todas, esse instrumental é horroroso e até a voz consegue ser melhor esse solo de máquina quebrada é tão ruim que chega a ser engraçado para piorar essa bosta de projeto é imensa, tanto em duração individual de faixas quanto em todas as faixas I do not want this me define ouvindo o álbum, porque parece tortura essa poluição sonora do caralho big man with a gun é curta, finalmente algo ruim curto warm place decente, só de ser curto já me agrada, o contraste é até interessante eraser até que complementa esse contraste, acho que por não ter vocal na sua maior parte ela fica boa só pelo instrumental - só no final ela volta a merda que o álbum é esse álbum não acaba. o que caralhos esse álbum ainda tem para oferecer com todo o respeito, todas as músicas são praticamente iguais reptile tem esse som de tiro de textura que fica irritante por ser perceptível - e essa duração atrapalha tudo a self titled tem esse ar de antecipação, e finalmente algo tem impacto de acontecimento narrativo dentro dessa sonoridade tensa ela constrói algo pra hurt, mas a essa altura eu já fui lobotomizado - o que é minimamente bom na questão projeto narrativo fica oculto a versão do johnny cash ficou bem melhor também embora hurt seja boa aqui (talvez a melhor junto de closer e warm place), é uma joia oculta no meio de tanta bosta repetitiva - e esse é o problema desse álbum tudo nele é uma gritaria constante, sonora e temática, e as duas últimas faixas tentam trazer uma narrativa que não funciona por não ter sido desenvolvida e isso me leva ao segundo ponto, que é tentarem achar uma temática para isso (como abuso de substâncias) certamente não existe uma temática, é só alguns ouvintes que se acham diferentões dos outros tentando achar profundidade onde não tem, principalmente pela identificação com a temática niilista vergonhosa de tão rasa 2/10 (porque se tivesse como eu daria 1)

No

I was a teenager in the 90s. I hated NIN then. 30 years later - I still hate NIN. This noise ruined my day.

Just no

That was painful

This album is raw, depressing and relentless. I can see why it's in this list but it's not for me.

cringe

Tad bit too heretical

Distorted emo murmuring =music? 🤔

I know this band was (is?) really popular, but to be honest listening to this album filled me with the desire to go out and yell at kids to get off my lawn and, a) There were no kids out front and b) I don’t have a lawn. I’m old and listened to punk if I needed angsty music, not this. It's just not my jam.

quelques rares moment , dont Hurt, qu’est sympa sous cette forme 1.5+/5

Not a fan of the screaming.

Straight poop. Fuck this album

Drew like a dark, fucked up version of the hamburger helper mascot haha. Just a glimpse into my dark reality. A full stare into my twisted perspective would make most simply go insane Imao

Noise and evil

Absolute abysmal noise. The only track I liked was the one they didn't shout/groan/swear/sing on! Can we just stop with the rock now!

Not my vibe

It sounds so horrible yet its mastered so well. I don't like the lyrics or the instruments used, its like putting a cheese grater up to my ears.

Noise

Too exhausting for me. Experimenten and noisy.

Chaos and distortion reigns. There may be art and skill here, but I am not appreciating it. The track “I Do Not Want This” accurately summarizes up my experience.

A couple songs were just barely listenable, but skipped a lot. The discordance was too much to bear.

UMMMM no.

Genuinely difficult and unpleasant listen

I did not listen to much of the album because the lyrics of the songs I did hear made me feel anxious.

Never really explored Nine Inch Nails before. Was aware of them(him? Is it just Trent Reznor?) and probably know some of the well known songs, but otherwise not really so this will be an interesting listen. This isn’t my favorite sound. Maybe 12 year old me in 2001 would’ve found this more interesting? It sounds like the music playing at a seedy club where bad guys are about to get shot by the anti hero in a 90s action movie. I don’t think I’m personally angry enough right now to even remotely enjoy this. It’s giving me anxiety. When I got to Closer I realized hey I know this one. So far it’s the only thing I’ve somewhat enjoyed on the album. But still, this guy jeez he’s angry. I listen to my albums in the morning and this is too much. Taking a break. Everytime I get to something that sounds interesting and I think I’m going to like, I just end up not liking what comes next. This is probably going to be a 1, unless something near the end changes my mind. I got to the song title I Do Not Want This and I couldn’t agree more. Overall, I understand some of the talent involved and he’s clearly great at putting together this sound by himself, but it’s not for me. It’s angst and stuck in a specific time that I’m mentally now where near right now. There’s nothing here I would choose to listen to on my own again. Maybe there’s a few songs that are okay, but still it’s overall just not for me and a drag to listen to for me. Overall a 1/5, but I’m sure there’s people who love this.

No thank you

i hated absolutely this album, its too rocky for my taste, i now have a migrane and my ears are belleding. Like these may be good musicionas but not for me

Meh

Very not my kind of music, I found it hard to get over that hurdle, and hard to see any sort of appeal to be honest.

Uhhhh dat eerste lied 😭😭😭 Herrie much…. Ohhh alleen closer ken ik wel van TikTok lol maar idk of het echt een goed lied is….. beetje toxic maar wel een goede beat opzich. Nee niet mn ding dit hele album, 2 sterren is nog aardig

Noisy and repetitive. The music grates on your ears and the vocals are annoying. Moving on. Best song: Closer

meh one star for hurt - johnny cash

ikke noe for meg dessverre

cant listen to this it sounds like a factory where all the machines needs to be greased and everyone needs a pay rise

Not for me. 2/10

This was not for me

Really Bad

No

an album of slightly grating noise which didn't feel particularly musical to me. Not my genre whatsoever

Way too metal for me

Too metal for me but I did really like piggy, didn’t realize they were very evil. I really do like the singers voice tho

I knew the band name but was surprised to hear the music to go with it - I really didn’t expect this. 100% did not like!

Never a huge fan, only know the radio hits. Damn that was a struggle to get through.

Not that great. Too much rock and gave me anxiety

nothing special except the name of the band

nah

I will never really understand the appeal of this album as much of it just sounds like noise to me. Best song: "A Warm Place" as it was noticeably different than the rest of the album and I also liked, "Hurt", but the rest of the album was something I won't choose to listen to again. Worst songs: the rest of the album excluding the two songs mentioned previously.

Not for me

No thanks

Nope

This is sub Depeche mode stuff and even that was not of the highest order. Woe is me plinky plinky gubbins. Even their best songs hurt is performed better elsewhere.

couldn't finish

Weird

Pretty mid. Closer

I'd never heard of Industrial Rock before and I won't be disappointed if I don't hear of it again. I'm not sure of how it's defined unless it's just making as much distorted noise as possible. A Warm Place was the only refuge, but that take a lot of listening to noise to reach it.

“Alternative”… try screaming in your face the entire time

Awful too noisy and angry, depressing

Nah I fucking hated this. I genuinely wouldn’t wish this listening experience on my worst enemy

Very experimental noisy listen. ‘Closer’ was of course a stand out. Always a banger. But nothing I would revisit

Overplayed

äÄÄh

Nope

I am not angry enough to give this a good listen, but I actually didn't totally hate everything. ⭐ Didn't like it.

I've been putting this off out of dread. I was right. This screamy noise was never going to be for me. I do not want this. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): N/A ⭐: Hated it.

Noise, for the most part.

Nope, hate it

edgy tenåringsemo

i can't listen to it

Ei yhtään omaan makuun, melkeinpä karseeta kauttaaltaan

I’ll come out the gate saying, I have never, NEVER been a fan of Nine Inch Nails. And I gotta say… I still hate NIN. Seriously, WTF is this? I get the whole experimental thing, but how did they get as popular as they did? Experimental groups like this are usually extremely niche.

Fuck me, that was fucking horrible. I gave it a go but I cannot stand anything this heavy. Does that make me a pussy? Maybe. Do I care? No.

No no no. Whoever made this needs to have his cocain confiscated

Had Nirvana vibes with the screaming. It wasn't terrible

Did not like this

dude calm down

This was horrendous. It's got the cringe factor of Limp Bizkit, but without any humour or decent riffs. How Johnny Cash was able to turn Hurt into what it is has to be a miracle.

Desperately boring.

My goodness, what a horrific album. It seemed to never end. It very much is a product of its time. The industrial sounds just cannot interest me at all. Very easy to rate this album. 1/5

ABORT ABORT

not a fan of rock so def not my fav

I will preface my notes on this album with the fact that I am a millennial and when I was younger I was totally into the emo bands like Fall Out Boy, Panic At The Disco, My Chemical Romance, etc....I never got into Nine Inch Snails and apparently I still cannot. I tried very hard to get through this album, but I found it to be a little too dark and honestly VERY creepy. It's just not my cup of tea. On to the next one.

Sinnloses Rumgebrülle! Sondermüll!

Really really not my cup of tea.

Хуита

Not my kind of music. He has an ok voice, but the lyrics are brutal. This music makes me thankful that I'm not lonely.

Don’t want to hear this

Terminator porn music

angsty and downright concerning lyrics Tracks to Track: Hurt

In den 90er hätte mich das sicher abgeholt. Heut ist es schwierig Künstler und Kunst zu trennen.

Couldnt listen

Trop violent pour mes oreilles

awful, cant get through this one

not my cup of tea

Well now that was horrible.

I can see it's merits - problem is I listen to my 1 album per day while working and this isn't great background music

No

Pas mon style dutt

🏭🤘🎸

Hard rock is not my genre but some songs were okay Highlights: - Piggy - Closer - Hurt

Just really not for me.

Ngl I hated this. It’s super noisy and the lyrics are pure cringe

A little intense for a 7:30am listen. Will return later

Men va är det här för Emocore-industri? Saknar den chockverkan och den provoaktiva form av antimusik som industri lutar sig mot och så värst mycket känslor är det inte heller, mest nån form av "american angst" som bara är enerverande. För mig blir det här bara nån gapig hårdrocksvariant som jag då inte förstår mig på för fem öre, kanske är det bra i sin genre, jag vet inte...? Lyssnade lite på debuten (Pretty hate machine) också som verkade lite syntigare, den hade fler poänger i mina öron. Ledsen jag måste damma av ettan ... igen Lyssna hellre på Lädernunnan - Slow death EP, Trobbing Gristle - 20 jazz funk greats, Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca

Har inget att säga om detta. Det här är inte min grej bara.

Rakt igenom urtråkigt och meningslöst 🥱Att Cash gjorde en magisk cover på Hurt hjälper inte. Visar snarare NINs uselhet.

I'm not angry enough for this. 1

Il est 1:55 du matin , je reviens d'une journée Goudes + ciné et je me dis tiens vasy je vais m'écouter l'album du jour en me badigeonnant de crème pour le corp Hurt : oui je commence par la dernière chanson de l'album et da fuck au début j'ai cru que mon casque été cassé... mais non c'est genre expérimental ? 105m d'écoutes quand meme... les 3 premiers tracks sont à chier closer : c'est quoi cette instru goofy ? c'est quand meme le son le plus écouté de l'album...i just can't... le paroles sont crad on dirait une chanson à mettre en arrière plan to fuck yk... bon je skip l'album ça m'a deja saoulé

DNF. I don’t know much, but I do know this is not for me. It really just felt like noise.

Lots of thumping and mean angry sounds

Not really

Wat een beroerde intro zeg. Lijkt wel hardcore, maar dan slecht. Nee dat eerste nummer is hm niet voor mij. Probeer ook nog te werken gvd. Wat een herrie zeg. Irritatie niveau is hoog. En dat op de vrijdagmiddag. Je hoopt te kunnen zeggen, oh het wordt beter. Maar nee, het blijft grafherrie. Nog 7 nummers te gaan. Verdomme zeg, komt ook geen eind aan. Wel een toepasselijke titel, I DO NOT WANT THIS. Downward Spiral is wel oke nog. Nee nvm, komt weer gebler doorheen. Alsof ze wisten dat ik iets positiefs ging zeggen. Nog 1 nummer te gaan. GODZIJDANK. Dit worden 2 1 sterren op 1 dag. Een unicum! Nou oke, Hurt was prima. Maar helpt niet mee dat de Cash versie 300* beter is. 1 ster. Nooit weer. Daaaaag.

Not for me at all 💩

Pff. No me gusta nada. Sobrevaloradisimo. Puede que fuera innovador o original pero esq no le pillo el funny. Es musica horny y ya. Todas las canciones tienen algo que la joden, como la guitarra glitcheada de hurt o los gritos random y soniditos del resto del album. Se salva "A warm place", cancion atmosferica, muy diferente al concepto del disco y justo la siguiente "The eraser", la cual pierde puntos por la intro. En conjunto solo destaca que es musica bastante aurática en mi opinion. La vida se siente sigma mientras escuchas con los casquets por la calle. Enfin, 3/10

No entiendo pq la gente escucha este álbum, quizás es porque no estoy acostumbrada a este tipo de música, pero no me atrae ningún aspecto de este álbum, ni las letras, ni los ritmos ni la parte instrumental. Quizás no es mi vibra y ya pero no me gustó nada. Lo único q la canción esa d Closer es buena para edits supongo.

It’s literally just noise, but not the good kind. I’m way overwhelmed, i wanna tear my ears off my head it’s just way too much. But I didn’t cheat and I listened to most of it I couldn’t take it anymore , I rate a 1/10 and that’s generous.

Hemskt dåligt. Lyssnade inte mer än två låtar.

Wemmer rechtig hässig esch fendet mers velecht no okay. För mech esches aber vel z vel rage woni ned wörk fühle. Es hed höchstens Asätz vo dem woni als Musig wörd bezeichne.

Closer obviously is good. The rest is not for me (or is bad). NiN is a band I just don't get the appeal of. Hurt is better by Johnny Cash. Pretty hard to listen to this album for me. NiN I think is a band I will just never like.

I don't remember it, no offense

I guess the reason I had to listen to this is so as to understand just how much musical tastes can vary... An interesting lesson. I know this album has a generally high rating and many glowing reviews, but I can't find a single positive thing to say about it. OK, the singer's voice is not bad, but totally wasted on this dire excuse for a record.

Nine inch nails... On a chalk board. Very much disliked the sound of this album and it didn't stir any emotional response from me other than boredom and a mild anxiety. Music for angsty American teenagers with a preoccupation with "pigs" and their non-existent girlfriends.

immediately no, wish no stars was possible

the sound of a self-pitying junkie mistaking his self-hate for profundity and encoding it into heavily compressed techno metal to serve as a bible for all the other self-pitying junkies of the world to validate their addictions as a path to faux-profundity. musically and lyrically this is mediocre at best. The fact that it was so influential is a mark against the culture. People are shitty, and this album is their soundtrack. and he did really build it to be so lyrically abstract- all adjectives, no referents... that anyone could insert the details of their garbage lives and think that he's referring to them. God I hate this fucking record.

Honestly, I was very disappointed when I listened to this album. I know the name Nine Inch Nails from Hurt, which I listened from Johnny Cash for the first time. For this reason, I had high expectations for this album. Honestly, it sounds like a collection of noises and melodic vocal lines that sound like moans. Not even the original version of Hurt at the end of the album pleased me. Today it is 1 star.

Immediately after this album, it auto-played to a NIN song I actually ended up really liking, so, like, it's possible, but overall these were, to me, mostly toilet noises, plus a bad Johnny Cash cover (yes, I *know*).

What activity is this music for listening to?

Echt, fuck Nine Inch Nails. We get it, je bent boos. 0.0

no

Nope

hani mer wök ned chönne geh weder. schlimmer als Metallica wöri sogar sege

The cover of hurt was awful

Trent sounds a little sad and angry. One star for Hurt, which Johnny Cash somehow made into a classic.

Refused to listen.

Loved it so many pretty outros nude was my favorite and when I really locked in with this album

It sounds like a movie scene when kids accidentally walk into a scary club and they play what adults saw as devil music

Toch wat te heftige muziek, niet helemaal de vibe

I'm noisy but not too much. I scream, but I also whisper. I'm angry with the system but I work for multinationals. I'm a moron.

nicht so meins, eher lärmorientiert.

very noisy, I couldn't enjoy practically anything from this album.

Insane screaming, weird music equals trash.

Punk/Rock, 1994 -> 1

Hard work. Driving industrial noise like a train which was impressive but tedious after a while. What kind of world dies this person inhabit? Awful for them and unlikeable for me

Closer was good. Didn’t enjoy anything else.

this shit is ass

Nope. Can't. Didn't.

That song in particular was straight from my soul, and it felt very strange hearing the highly identifiable voice of Johnny Cash singing it. It was a good version, and I certainly wasn't cringing or anything, but it felt like I was watching my girlfriend fuck somebody else. Or something like that. Anyway, a few weeks later, a videotape shows up with Mark Romanek's video on it. It's morning; I'm in the studio in New Orleans working on Zack De La Rocha's record with him; I pop the video in, and... wow. Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine any more.

Nah. I think after Pretty Hate Machine and the Broken EP, there wasn’t really anywhere else to go with the NIN brand of industrial music. Too same-y and there’s nothing that truly stands out the way PHM and Broken did. Truly the beginning of the downward spiral of NIN.

So angry. Unlistenable. I hated it in the 90s when I was a teenager and I still hate it today. "A Warm Place" is the only thing approaching a "good song". That includes Closer and Hurt. Dated worse than disco.

Didn't like at all!

Downward Spiral describes this album perfectly 3 tracks in and I had to turn it off, what a load of anger fuelled crap I'm sure I couldve coped not listening to it before I died lol have instructed Spotify never to assault me earholes with this again

Sucks dick, not my style and hard to listen to.

I was so unengaged with this that I started checking my work email, and it is a Saturday. Distortion and bellowed, puerile, lyrics are a poor substitute for musical talent. I've wasted enough time on this twaddle. 1/5.

This one got served to me after my newborn kept me up most of the night. So, bad luck.

awful

Definitely not my kind of music. I feel like an old man listening to music like this and want to say that it just sounds like “noise”

I skipped extra quick through this album just in case I happen to die in the middle. I didn’t want this to be the last thing I heard.

1. deztruct - 1.5 2. piggy - 1 3. herezy - 1.5 4. march - 1.5 5. clozer - 2 6. ruiner - 1 7. becoming - 1 8. uuant - 1.5 9. gun - 0 10. place - 1.5 11. erazer - 1.5 12. reptile -1 13. zpiral - 1 14. hurt - 1.5

Do not like nin

The worst yet?

Quite possibly the most deranged album I’ve ever listened to. This album was made by a man for men for sure. This is peak male manipulator music. Gave me the ick. Had me laughing and horrified. I will say it had a lasting impression. I’m scared.

Boring

Objectively pretty interesting and I think groundbreaking in some respects, but really not my thing lyrically or musically. 2/10